What to see in America . miles west of the city is St. Charles, where canbe seen Missouris first State House and the executive man-sion occupied by the first governor. At Fulton, a hundredmiles farther west, is the stone house in which Daniel Boone,the famous pioneer, spent his last 3^ears and died in capital of the state is Jefferson City, a prosperous placeon the Missouri one hundred and forty-three miles abovethe rivers mouth. Eighty miles south of St. Louis is Iron Mountain, about1100 feet high. It is an irreg-ular hill capped with a depositof iron, seventy per cent pure,which is
What to see in America . miles west of the city is St. Charles, where canbe seen Missouris first State House and the executive man-sion occupied by the first governor. At Fulton, a hundredmiles farther west, is the stone house in which Daniel Boone,the famous pioneer, spent his last 3^ears and died in capital of the state is Jefferson City, a prosperous placeon the Missouri one hundred and forty-three miles abovethe rivers mouth. Eighty miles south of St. Louis is Iron Mountain, about1100 feet high. It is an irreg-ular hill capped with a depositof iron, seventy per cent pure,which is from six to thirty feetthick. Pilot Knob, a half dozenmiles farther south, contains an-other wonderful bed of iron this vicinity is Taum SaukMountain, with an altitude of1750 feet, the highest in Missouri. On the northwestern border ofthe state is Hannibal, a riverport and railroad center chieflyinteresting as the boyhood home P u-\T 1 rr mi i MarK TwaINs BOYHOOD HOME or Mark iwam. ine house at Hannibal. 280 • What to See in America in which he lived is now the property of the city and ismaintained as a permanent memorial. Here the humoristgot inspiration for two of his most popular books— TomSawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Great ragged bluffsrise along the river front, and farther back are many wildhills and glens. Two miles north, up the River Road,is a hill where the boys used to dig for treasure, and threemiles beyond the town in the other direction is a cave inwhich Tom Sawyer had some notable adventures. Theauthors birthplace was Florida, a little town up Salt River,twenty-five miles away. There Mark Twain was bornin 1835 in the kitchen of a humble two-room frame house. Gen. Pershing, who won fame in France during theWorld War as the leader to victory of the greatest forcethe United States ever put in the field, was born in 1860on the outskirts of Laclede, a place of about sevenhundred people then and now, in the north central partof the state. On the boundary lin
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